What to do on a sweltering hot Saturday? Spend it at Home Depot, of course!
They had another sale on this weekend that we just had to take advantage of. And boy did it pay off. We've ordered the bathroom vanity for downstairs, purchased the shower surround for downstairs, and the bath and surround for upstairs. We had planned to do tile on the upstairs bath originally, but this surround is quite nice and was a good deal. We used that exact model in the last place we rented before we bought this house, and it was great. Plus it will really speed installation up, which is becoming more and more of an issue. We also picked up a part for the toilet, a faucet for the new vanity (hugely on sale!), and screen parts. Now we get to make screens, yay! lol. But in the end we'll appreciate having them. Ru jumped out the dining room window again last night, so that window will not be opened again until it's got a screen in it now. That may not be for a few days as we now have to find a place that sells decent screen clips. Anyway, we're very happy because our purchases qualified us for a nice big rebate, which will really help things. We've now purchased the most expensive items for the renos. We still have flooring left for the downstairs (and the upstairs bathroom), cabinets, a sink, and a counter top for the upstairs bathroom, faucets for the upstairs sink and the bath and tub, glass for the broken windows, a used fridge for the downstairs kitchen, trim for the new exterior door R installed, the rest of the paint, and possibly new lower cabinets (just basic ones) for the upstairs kitchen. The current ones are real wood and in good shape. But we're concerned about the silverfish living in the walls behind them and the moisture behind the sink. So they'll have to come out. And if they have any rot they'll have to be replaced. Plus that will allow us to pull up the rest of the subfloor that will have to go eventually. Down the road we'll be putting proper flooring in the kitchen. But that's not a priority.